CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

saru-88447 Typically copied from soem old tamil movie. Seems like Hollywood is becoming full of copy-cats.

pkugrinas The film is filled to the brim with 21st century symbolism. I think this movie deserves a better place among the critics. It's a very direct and unique story line. Protagonist, the CIA agent comes to Moscow for the secret operation in the light of Russia's plans becoming independent from the US dollar for its international trade - something US government shouldn't allow. Therefore the main character is there to sabotage their plan and put an end to it. He achieves it briliantly by deceiving the Russians and stealing their sensitive data which reveals secret Russian agents working on the American soil. Main character is not only an ex-soldier but also a hacker. His girlfriend, a beautiful PhD doctor is also playing an important role in this by joining him on a mission. She comes to Moscow thinking that he's cheating on her and cries tears of joy upon hearing that he's a CIA agent instead. After he kills the remaining Russian agent who's just about getting started to stage a terrorist attack in NYC, he meets the US president for the award of honor. This is done with the help of his girlfriend who notices the possible plot and helps to pinpoint the location of the Russian enemy.

augustincoppey This review focuses on the negative critics, which I find to be quite unrepresentative of the movie.Most negative reviews focus on the act that the marketing tag line "trust no one" was woefully unrepresentative of the actual plot. I have serious objections about that. There is a major betrayal early in the movie, at a point that no one expects, which sets the stage for confusion and doubts in the hero's mind through the rest of the film. This effect only works if you are concentrating on the main actor, suspending disbelief about watching a movie and instead letting yourself slip into the hero's mind: inexperienced in field Ops and betrayed on his first mission. All the negative reviews below are because the viewer was eating popcorn instead of falling into character. In truth "trust" in not a major plot line, but it's not absent either, as the review imply. It's just texture to build up the tension.This brings me to my second comment: I enjoyed this movie's plot, (despite, yes, many shortcomings regarding the details), because the story line was very representative of Tom Clancy's writing style, with multiple plots going on in parallel but on different time frames. This worked very well for me in the books, building up tension with very little relief until the last pages. The movie here produces the same effect with the same technique. I can accept that it makes the story somewhat convoluted at times, and it may possibly lose many viewers with short attention spans, causing some negative reviews. But if your attention can keep up, then you realize why the main character can "trust no one" - he is as confused by the plot as the viewer (because inexperienced and fallible), trying to keep up with the multiple objectives on multiple time frames. I found this to be an excellent technique to build suspense in an intelligent way, with very little special effects or dumb actions scenes (there are good action scenes, but no one is an invincible here - just plain human).In short, you will find this movie boring if you find iron man or superman to be great entertainment. If you've enjoyed reading the books, you may find this to be a better story than the previous Jack Ryan movies.

c-conley90 I know two faced in my review of this movie. On one had, it's rather dry as far as Jack Ryan movies go. Hell, it doesn't have a football stadium blowing up in it like Sum of All Fears. Chris Pine is good, Kevin Costner is excellent, Keira Knightley is playing sort of a damsel in distress at parts of this?!! OK, this kind of blindsides me after years of Pirates of the Caribbean movies where she could kick some person's ass if she wanted to. The director is the bad guy. Oh wait, sorry Spoilers! He's actually not bad as a sleazy Russian extremist terrorist. His end is however a letdown. The action scenes are great, but again the whole movie as a whole is a meh. I would watch it again, if I need a fast paced Spy Thriller to watch. I can see why this bombed and it never saw a sequel.